supplant
verb (used with object)
to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
has supplanted
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present perfectof supplant (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Those nominations numbers continued the shift that has been taking place the last several years as Cannes has supplanted the fall film festivals as the event with the most sway at the Academy Awards.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
And after AI, some other transformative technology could emerge—just as AI has supplanted the enthusiasm over cloud computing, fracking, the internet and earlier breakthroughs that lifted the market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
More recently, separatist-controlled eastern Libya has supplanted Chad as the main Emirati supply route towards Sudan, said Emadeddin Badi, a researcher at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
“It felt a little like Mosby has supplanted Thurgood Marshall or Claire Huxtable as the most beloved black attorney in American history,” he wrote.
From Slate ● May 24, 2024
Nor was that the only evidence that the wild has supplanted the tame.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
